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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10054763014X
ISBN-139780547630144
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038740845
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Book TitleWhen We Were the Kennedys : a Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Literary, American / General
Publication Year2012
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMonica Wood
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-016069
Dewey Edition23
Reviews" When We Were the Kennedys is a sharp, stunning portrait of a family's grief and healing, and it also offers a refreshing lens through which to view the JFK tragedy, as his family's loss helps the Woods feel less adrift in their own sea of anguish...Wood writes beautifully." - Washingtonian "Wood movingly renders her childhood in Mexico, Maine, and her large Catholic family's fight to survive after her father's sudden death. It's a pleasure to linger with her elegant prose, keen eye, and grace of thought."- Reader's Digest "The book is a shining example of everything a memoir should be." - U.S. Catholic "This is a beautifully composed snapshot of how a family, a town-and, later, a country-grieves and goes on...The bonds between family members, neighbors, and coworkers, as well as men and their professions, are all explored here with sensitivity and a sweetness that isn't saccharine." - Library Journal "Braiding her own story of mourning together with the heartbreak all around her, Wood has written a tender memoir of a very different time." - O, the Oprah Magazine "Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form, that takes us by the hand and leads us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves. With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this, bringing back to life the rural paper mill town of not only her youth but America's, too, its bumbling, hard-working, often violent, yet mostly good-hearted lurch forward into the 21st century. When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!"-Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie "This is an extraordinarily moving book, so carefully and artfully realized, about loss and life and love. Monica Wood displays all her superb novelistic skills in this breathtaking, evocative new memoir. Wow."-Ken Burns, filmmaker "Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family. When We Were the Kennedys captures a shimmering mill-town world on the edge of oblivion, in a voice that brims with hope, feeling, and wonder. The book humbles and soars."-Mike Paterniti, author of Driving Mr. Albert "Monica Wood is a stunning writer and When We Were the Kennedys a luminous and resonant achievement. If I were standing beside you, I would press this book into your hands."-Lily King, author of The Pleasing Hour and Father of the Rain, "Wood movingly renders her childhood in Mexico, Maine, and her large Catholic family's fight to survive after her father's sudden death. It's a pleasure to linger with her elegant prose, keen eye, and grace of thought."- Reader's Digest "The book is a shining example of everything a memoir should be." - U.S. Catholic "This is a beautifully composed snapshot of how a family, a town-and, later, a country-grieves and goes on...The bonds between family members, neighbors, and coworkers, as well as men and their professions, are all explored here with sensitivity and a sweetness that isn't saccharine." - Library Journal "Braiding her own story of mourning together with the heartbreak all around her, Wood has written a tender memoir of a very different time." - O, the Oprah Magazine "Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form, that takes us by the hand and leads us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves. With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this, bringing back to life the rural paper mill town of not only her youth but America's, too, its bumbling, hard-working, often violent, yet mostly good-hearted lurch forward into the 21st century. When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!"-Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie "This is an extraordinarily moving book, so carefully and artfully realized, about loss and life and love. Monica Wood displays all her superb novelistic skills in this breathtaking, evocative new memoir. Wow."-Ken Burns, filmmaker "Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family. When We Were the Kennedys captures a shimmering mill-town world on the edge of oblivion, in a voice that brims with hope, feeling, and wonder. The book humbles and soars."-Mike Paterniti, author of Driving Mr. Albert "Monica Wood is a stunning writer and When We Were the Kennedys a luminous and resonant achievement. If I were standing beside you, I would press this book into your hands."-Lily King, author of The Pleasing Hour and Father of the Rain, Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family., "Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form, that takes us by the hand and leads us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves. With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this, bringing back to life the rural paper mill town of not only her youth but America's, too, its bumbling, hard-working, often violent, yet mostly good-hearted lurch forward into the 21st century. When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!"Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie "This is an extraordinarily moving book, so carefully and artfully realized, about loss and life and love. Monica Wood displays all her superb novelistic skills in this breathtaking, evocative new memoir. Wow."Ken Burns, filmmaker "Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family. When We Were the Kennedys captures a shimmering mill-town world on the edge of oblivion, in a voice that brims with hope, feeling, and wonder. The book humbles and soars."Mike Paterniti, author of Driving Mr. Albert, (That) When We Were the Kennedy's should be allowed a seat in the hothouse society of tell-alls is a tribute to the welcoming sensibility of it author...
Dewey Decimal813/.54 B
Synopsis1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, "When We Were the Kennedys" is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob, Mum s youngest brother, a charismatic Catholic priest who feels his new responsibilities deeply. And then, as the nation is shocked by the loss of its handsome Catholic president, the televised grace of Jackie Kennedy she too a Catholic widow with young children galvanizes Mum to set off on an unprecedented family road trip to Washington, D.C., to do some rescuing of her own. An indelible story of how family and nation, each shocked by the unimaginable, exchange one identity for another. Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don t know that I ve ever pulled so hard for a family. Michael Paterniti, author of "Driving Mr. Albert"", Monica Wood's moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sisters healed after the loss of their mill-worker father and then the nation's loss of its handsome young Catholic president., 1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father's wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob, Mum's youngest brother, a charismatic Catholic priest who feels his new responsibilities deeply. And then, as the nation is shocked by the loss of its handsome Catholic president, the televised grace of Jackie Kennedy--she too a Catholic widow with young children--galvanizes Mum to set off on an unprecedented family road trip to Washington, D.C., to do some rescuing of her own. An indelible story of how family and nation, each shocked by the unimaginable, exchange one identity for another. "Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family."--Michael Paterniti, author of Driving Mr. Albert
LC Classification NumberPS3573.O5948Z46 2012
